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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFICE.

WILLIAM D. M. SIMMONS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSJ IGNOB TO UNDERW'OOD TYPE- WRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

BADGE.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. M. SIM- MONS, a citizen of the United States, residing inBrooklyn Borough, in the county of Queens, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badges, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a graded set of badges, each grade of badge therein being indicative of a certain degree of proficiency on the part of an operator in a given art; and more especially of an Operator in the art'of typewriting.

One of the objects of the invention is the grouping, on several pendants or carriers, of the individual badges of the set, to the end that certain more general classifications of efficiency, such, for instance, as amateurs,

experts, and speed operators in typewriting, may be recognized and indicated by group or class badges. As-illustrative of the invention, the pendant worn by an amateur may carry a badge in the form of a bar indicating" a minimum of forty net words a minute in speed; and, to this same pendant, may be added another bar indicating a speed of ten words in addition thereto, and still another ten-word bar'in'dicating, with the first two bars, a speed of sixty words a minute. The first badge or bar on the pendantof the expert group or class may indicate a minimum speed of seventy words a minute, and one or two ten-word bars added to that pendant indicate, respectively, speeds of eighty and ninety words a minute. On the pendant of the speed operator, the first badge or bar may indicate a speed of one hundred words a minute, and one or two additional ten-word bars thereon will indicate speeds of one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty words, respectively. Nine badges or bars are thus divided into three groups of three badges each.

In the provision of a considerable number of grades, permitting of awards for small progressive increases in proficiency, and, consequently, permitting of awards at short intervals of time, the invention has the advantages of creating an incentive for better work on the part ofthe operator and of maintaining the interest ofthe operator throughout his entire typewriting career. In the separation ofthe bars into general 'A feature of the invention, in the preferred embodiment thereof, is the provision of distinctive dress for each group or class device. In the form of the invention hereinafter described in detail, this distinction in dressis obtained by having thebars on the pendant for amateurs, of bronze; those on the pendant for experts, of silver; and those on the pendant for peed operators, of gold.

Another feature of the invention is the provision of badges, one for each groupdevice, which indicate the art to which the bars and group-devices relate; and which preferably serve as medals awarded for ad vancement into a particular class. To this end, these group-badges or medals, like the bars, are of bronze, silver or gold, accord ing to the class designated thereby.

A feature of the invention is the ready attachability to the operators badge-pendant of such further bars as may be earned by him.

Other features and advantages will here inafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure I is a front view of the device comprising the badges assigned to those ordinarily termed amateurs. I

Figure 2 is a front view of the device comprising the badges assigned to those ordinarily termed experts.

Figure 3 is a front view of the device comprising the badges assigned to those ordinarily termed speed operators.

Figure 4t is a side view of any one of the devices of Figures 1, 2 and 3.

Figure 5 is a rear view of the pendantsupporting plate, showing the ribbon-clasp and the pin for attaching the assembled device to the wearer or to a display-piece.

1 Figure 6 is a perspective view of the bar- Actually, there-,

badges indicative of a particular wordspced in any group or class, the word-designation being omitted.

Referring to the drawings, each of the devices of Figures 1, 2 and 3 willbe seen to comprise a' pendant or carrier 1, in the form of a loop or ribbon, carried by a plate 2, which latter may appropriately indicate the institution issuing, presenting or spon-. soring the badge. For attaching the ribbon to the-plate 2, a clasp 3, indicated as of safetypin type, is shown as soldered or otherwise fixed, as at d, to the back of the plate 2. The flexible pin-portion of this clasp is slipped through the loop of the ribbon, and is snapped into the retaining hook 6 at the other end of the clasp. To hold the assembled device to the wearer or any other object, there is pin 7, hinged at 8 to the back of the plate 2, and a catch 9 locks the pin 7.

Each pendant-ribbon isgathered at its bottom, and a ring 10 embraces the loop formed by the ribbon at this point. Fromthe rings 10 are suspended the badges or medals 11, 12- and 13, indicative of the art to which the badges relate. Preferably these badges 11, 12 and 13 are distinguished from one another inappearance, and, to this end, the badge 11 of the amateur class may be of bronze; the badge. 12 of the expert class, of silver; and the badge 1-3 of the speed operator class, of gold. To indicate the art to which the devices relate, the badges 11, 12 and 13 bear the representation of a typewriting machine and the terms Speed and Accuracy.

The bars indicative of the speed in any particular class consist ota front plate 14L (see Figure 6), having arear piece 15 slightly spaced therefrom and turned at its ends, as at 16 and 17, to connect with the front plate Upon removal of the pendant-supporting plate 2 or of the pendantbadge 11, 12 or 13, the bar-piece 1 11;5'- may be slipped onto the ribbon 1.- The ribbon 1 may be slightly wider than the distance between the end-turns 16 and; 17 of the bars, so that the bars will be held; in place by reason of the ribbon being pinched inby the ends of the bars engaging the same. Other and special means for holding the bars in place may be provided, and may be neces sary where the carrier-pendant is not a ribbon.

Referring to Figure 1, which is the device for the a-m'ateui" class, the top bar 18 is shown as bearing the legend Forty net words, this legend beingi-ndicative of the minimum speed for which the device of the amateur class is awarded. After the operator has acquired a badge of the amateur class, indicating a speed of forty words a minute on the typowriting machine, he may later acquire a speed of fifty words a minute, in which event he will be entitled to a bar 19, which bears the legend Ten net words, the total value of the bars on the pendant then being forty plus ten, representing his speed of fifty words aminute. A later-acquired speed of sixty words per minute is recognized by an additional bar 20, which bears the legend Ten net words, so that the bars then on the pendant of Figure 1 represent forty, plus ten, plus ten, or sixty words a minute. The bars 18, 19. and 20 on the Figure 1 pendant, as in the case of the badge 11 indicative of the art, which is suspended from that pendant, may be of bronze or off other material which dis? tinguishes the same from the bars and badges of the Figures 2 and 3 devices.

The operator may later acquire a speed o1 seventy words a minute, in which event he is entitled to the badge of Figure 2, with the bar 21, which carries the legend Seventy net words. Later-acquired speeds of eighty and ninety net words, respectively, are recognized by the addition of bars 22 and 23 to the pendant of the Figure 2 device. As in the case of the badge 12, which is suspended from the Figure 2 pendant, the bars 21, 22 and 23 on that pendant may be of silver, to. distinguish the same from the Figures 1 and 3 devices.

Upon acquiring? a speed of one hundredwords' a minute,- the operator becomes entitled to the Figure 3 device, with the bar 2 1; thereon, which bar carries the legend One hundred net words. Further-acquired speeds of one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty words a minute, are, respectively, recognized by the addition of bars and 26 to the pendant of Figure 3; and the bars 24;, 25 and 26,- l-ike the suspended badge 13 ot the Figure 3 device, may be gold, todistinguish the same from the Figures 1 and 2 devices.-

It will be understood that the minimum and maxim-um words per minute, indicated by the badges, and the ten-words steps. as well as the particular grouping or classiitying of the bars, are matters of choice and convenience, and are subject to variation within the scope and; purpose of the invention,

Other ariations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others. 7

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1*. A, badge for indicating successive steps of proficiency in typewr-iting speed comprising a pliable pendant adapted to have bars thereon, one above the other, metal bars having means to attach them to the pendant, each bar on apendant l-raving thereon indi-cia diti erent from the indici-a on the others to indicate the successive steps of proficiency of the wearer, and a plate having means through which the top of the pendant may be connected thereto, and means to attach the plate to a wearer, the plate also having indicia indicative of the donor of the bat ge.

2. A badge for indicating successive steps of proficiency in typewriting speed comprising a pliable pendant adapted to have bars thereon one above the other, metal bars having means to attachthem to the pendant, each bar on a pendant having thereon indicia different from the indicia on the others to indicate the successive steps of proficiency of the wearer, and a plate havingmeans through which the top of the pendant may be connected thereto, means to attach the plate to a wearer, and weighted means at tached to the bottom of the pendant to maintain it in position.

3. A system of badges for indicating successive steps of proficiency in typewriting speed comprising a first badge having a top plate of metal with means to attach it to the wearer, a pendant attached to the plate and adapted to have attached thereto one above the other a plurality of metal bars, metal bars having means to attach them to the pendant one above the other, the first bar having indicia for specifying the class of typewriters to which the wearer belongs and the other bars having indicia to indicate successive steps of proficiency in that class, a second badge comprising a plate of differently appearing metal from the metal of the first mentioned plate with means to at- 4. A system of badges for indicating suc- I cessive steps of proficiency in typewriting speed comprisinga first badge having a top plate of metal with ll'ltELllS to attach it to the wearer, a pendant attached to the plate and adapted to have attached thereto one above the other a plurality of metal bars, metal bars having means to attach them to the pendant one above the other, the

first bar having indicia for specifying theclass of typewriters to which the wearer belongs and the other bars having indicia to indicate successive steps of proficiency in that class, a second badge comprising a plate of metal with means to attach it to the wearer, a pendant attached to theplate and adapted to have attached thereto one above the other, bars of metal having indicia on the top bar to indicate the class to which the typewriter belongs and the other bars having indicia to indicate successive increments with larger totals than those on the first mentioned badge.

XVILLIAM D. M. SIMMONS. 

